GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| hortatory | hortative |
| raspy | harsh |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |